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All of what he experienced on the streets of the city, however, paled before the horror he felt on Wall Street, where, he wrote in an essay, “rivers of gold arrived from all parts of the earth, and with it death. Nowhere else on earth but
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“Walking in mist tests not only individual self-discipline, but the best sort of interplay between persons.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown allies will come and seek you.”
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“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― The Peregrine
― The Peregrine
“Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.”
― The Living Mountain
― The Living Mountain
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